English Poetry Before Chaucer

Klappentext A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work! intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe! their conversion to Christianity! the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth! the military adventure of the Crusades! and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England. Zusammenfassung A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work! intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English.

Product details

• Authors: M. J. Swanton, Michael Swanton
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780859896818
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-681-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies; Exeter Medieval English Texts; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies